FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 93 



facturing interests. This act of organizing the manufacturing 

 forces we cannot fail to recognize as a piece of farsightedness 

 looking toward improvement in every direction pertaining to 

 their industry. 



Now problems other than those of quality attend the oper- 

 ation of a well-regulated creamery in these days. However, as 

 soon as the more pressing of these problems had been cared for 

 it is a significant fact that these bodies came together and dis- 

 cussed most earnestly the question of quality in butter and how 

 to secure it. This fact, I repeat, that these men were vvilling ev- 

 en when conditions were not very bad to come together and 

 spend their time and money in discussing a question of this 

 sort, in large part at least from the philanthropic point of view^, 

 IS significant. True they expected personal returns for this ef-' 

 fort, but this was not where the stress was laid in their discus- 

 sion. Now when you talk with these men individually they say 

 that nothing has been accomplished. I read to you in the fore 

 part of this paper some bits of the history of dairying as it has 

 occurred in Illinois, largely to say that in the light of what has 

 happened in the dairy world since 1852 much has been accom- 

 plished. Do you suppose that P. H. Smith could ship milk into 

 Chicago the same way that he did in 1852? I should say not. 

 Or do you suppose that Dr. Joseph Tefft's creamery would pass 

 the laws of the present day with regard to sanitation and did 

 he protect his consumers by a perfect system of pasteurization 

 of the cream before it was made into butter? He did not. So 

 these things are all measured relatively and if you are inclined 

 to doubt that the systems of manufacturing are better today 

 than they were years ago, go and ask some of the old-time but- 

 termakers how they used to make their product. Now when I 

 tell you that the first creamery club was organized in the cen- 

 tral part of the state in November 1912, that the Illinois Butter 

 Manufacturers' Improvement Association was organized in 

 April 191 1, that the Southern Club was organized some time in 

 19 14, you ought not to expect too much progress in that short 

 period of time. But let me call your attention to some of the 

 things that have happened in that brief period of three or four 



